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Monday, August 03, 2015

A Prayer Book for Australia (1995): A Report from the Diocese of Sydney's Diocesan Doctrinal Commission

Following the publication of A Prayer Book for Australia (1995) the Diocese of Sydney’s Diocesan
Doctrinal Commission at the request of the Archbishop and the General Synod
examined the book and submitted a report
of its findings to the General Synod the following year. The report may be found here.

The report
contains a very clear articulation of the eucharistic doctrines of the 1662
Book of Common Prayer.

The report is
instructive in that it shows how the Commission evaluated the Holy Communion
Services of A Prayer Book for Australia (1995)—what
they considered in their assessment of the book.

The report also provides valuable insights into how
eucharistic doctrine in a number of Anglican provinces has moved away from that
of the 1662 Prayer Book.

A number of observations that the Diocese of Sydney’s Diocesan
Doctrinal Commission make about the Second Order for Holy Communion in A Prayer Book for Australia (1995) also apply
to the two forms of Holy Communion in Texts
for Common Prayer.